Migrant crossings are getting more extreme with each moment. With more people crossing every day on Thursday, Governor Greg Abbott made it clear that Texas will forcefully place a 1,000-foot floating barrier near the United States and Mexico border to stop migrants from entering the U.S.
The migrant crossings that are happening right now on the Mexican border are mainly caused by economic situations. Economic concerns for migrants and their families can include getting more food on the table, knowing that the money they earned is going to be protected, and more. The list can go on forever, depending on each of the family’s needs.
Gov. Abbott explained that the border barrier would be made of four buoys that can be moved if there were other active crossings happening, but they were first going to be placed in the city of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Gov. Abbott, a third-term Republican, is one of the few Republican governors that decided to focus on the illegal migration crisis. At one point, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, flew 36 migrants from El Paso, TX to Sacramento, CA. The main reason for this act was to give the immigrants to an immigrant-friendly state, California.
Multiple Republican governors have sent National Guard members to the border to help deal with the migration crisis, including Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia after they received the request from Gov. Abbott.
Texas is very committed to this project as they have not only added the buoys, but also concertina wires. Concertina wires are wires mainly used in the military to keep away outsiders and intruders. Texas lawmakers are so concerned about border security, that the legislature just got approved a two-year budget of $5.1 billion for border security. According to Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, they will put in $1 million on the first stretch of the floating barrier alone.
Back in Eagle Pass, local officials are extremely relieved the government is going to temporarily place the barrier there.
Rolando Salinas Jr., the mayor of Eagle Pass, says, “If this means less people will be crossing illegally through the heart of Eagle Pass, we support it.” He also added, “People shouldn’t be crossing there to begin with,” when reporters asked him if he was concerned that the barrier might lead to scarier and more dangerous conditions.
On the other hand, Mr. McCraw said that there is hardly a chance for people to be able to cross the barrier, and if there is, it would be difficult.
Robert De Leon, a chief deputy sheriff that covers Eagle Pass, said that people drown crossing the area so often that deputies are finding more than one or two bodies dead in the river daily. He says, “Anything that keeps us from finding a dead body on the side of the river, I’m for.”
Both the officials and the government really want to solve the extreme migrant crossings, and they came across the idea of building a floating barrier to help with this problem. Even if it might not work, at least they have put thought into solving this problem!
The migrant crossings that are happening right now on the Mexican border are mainly caused by economic situations. Economic concerns for migrants and their families can include getting more food on the table, knowing that the money they earned is going to be protected, and more. The list can go on forever, depending on each of the family’s needs.
Gov. Abbott explained that the border barrier would be made of four buoys that can be moved if there were other active crossings happening, but they were first going to be placed in the city of Eagle Pass, Texas.
Gov. Abbott, a third-term Republican, is one of the few Republican governors that decided to focus on the illegal migration crisis. At one point, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, flew 36 migrants from El Paso, TX to Sacramento, CA. The main reason for this act was to give the immigrants to an immigrant-friendly state, California.
Multiple Republican governors have sent National Guard members to the border to help deal with the migration crisis, including Florida, Ohio, South Carolina, and Virginia after they received the request from Gov. Abbott.
Texas is very committed to this project as they have not only added the buoys, but also concertina wires. Concertina wires are wires mainly used in the military to keep away outsiders and intruders. Texas lawmakers are so concerned about border security, that the legislature just got approved a two-year budget of $5.1 billion for border security. According to Steve McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, they will put in $1 million on the first stretch of the floating barrier alone.
Back in Eagle Pass, local officials are extremely relieved the government is going to temporarily place the barrier there.
Rolando Salinas Jr., the mayor of Eagle Pass, says, “If this means less people will be crossing illegally through the heart of Eagle Pass, we support it.” He also added, “People shouldn’t be crossing there to begin with,” when reporters asked him if he was concerned that the barrier might lead to scarier and more dangerous conditions.
On the other hand, Mr. McCraw said that there is hardly a chance for people to be able to cross the barrier, and if there is, it would be difficult.
Robert De Leon, a chief deputy sheriff that covers Eagle Pass, said that people drown crossing the area so often that deputies are finding more than one or two bodies dead in the river daily. He says, “Anything that keeps us from finding a dead body on the side of the river, I’m for.”
Both the officials and the government really want to solve the extreme migrant crossings, and they came across the idea of building a floating barrier to help with this problem. Even if it might not work, at least they have put thought into solving this problem!